TV Series · 2009 · TV Series · 2000s
NCIS: Los Angeles
Scored from 158 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A spinoff of NCIS, this procedural drama follows the Office of Special Projects, an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service based in Los Angeles. The team uses undercover assignments, surveillance, and high-tech tools to track down dangerous criminals who threaten national security. Led by veteran agents and supported by tech operators, the unit balances field work with the personal lives and pasts of its members.
Released in 2009, NCIS: Los Angeles is an action, adventure and comedy television series.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 30 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 158 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 176 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where NCIS: Los Angeles lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 158.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
